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My whole stay of stitch here on You Tube is obviously the pin wheel stitch. And that’s fabulous, okay, let me see fabulous. And the rainbows in that, actually the colors switching looks absolutely phenomenal, it's not something that you're going to see everyday, so as most people that want to crochet something that says goes from black to tada and then this is it.

And it's really, really not that hard it looks complicated but it's not. And this like it's here that’s two strings used as one, so instead of one string using we're actually using two together simultaneously. So when it's a solid yellow and new two solid strings and yellow at the same time. And then when I’m at the next row I kept one yellow and then I moved on to the orange and at that when we got here we got solid merge and then you can see that’s how I did it.

So we're going to have a chapter to do this in the Jumbo Pin Wheel stitch. Okay, this is not written anywhere this is from my mind because you know what? This pattern is really good, absorbs a lot more but you know what? Who wants to get bore? I get that feeling it's like 50 pounds. Like you can't even like, this blanket is so thick that then you want to use it and so the Jumbo Pin Wheel, well it actually make everything spreader a little bit more, make it a little more softer like this is. And be even like more spectacular than this, so there's no pattern for it, I'm making it up as it go I'm going to fill the tutorial as I go. So if I make any screw ups, I'm just going to have to delete by a chat. We're just going to use two colors and instead for rainbow I’ll just show you how to get started. And that for that, it's the world is your imagination. And we’ll go from there, so that’s about it. So Jumbo Pin Wheel stitches.

Mikey, from The Crochet Crowd, teaches crochet projects, stitches and tips. Learn by following along with him. All of the projects he teaches are free to use.
Whether you are learning to crochet for the first time and/or are looking for further ideas for inspiration. Mikey has it all.